Summer of Art
Tentoonstelling / presentatie
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31-07-2023 t/m 01-09-2023
- In samenwerking met: Brutus
- Locatie: , Rotterdam
EKWC
Residenties / uitwisseling
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25-10-2017 t/m 26-01-2018
- In samenwerking met: EKWC, CBK Rotterdam
- Locatie: , Oisterwijk
- I began to play with the rather delicate and breakable material which is ceramics to undermine the assumed solidity and reliability of the cables and pipes as a central component of our urban infrastructures. By installing these breakable objects on fragile pedestals or hanging them in space I wished to underscore their autonomous and clumsy appearance as well as their bold colors when not in function.
- https://www.luuksmits.nl/works/testslot
Spatial Interventions Suikerunie Groningen
Tentoonstelling / presentatie
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16-06-2021 t/m 16-08-2023
- In samenwerking met: SIGN Groningen
- Locatie: Groningen, Groningen
- Luuk Smits maakt een zeven meter hoge mobiele toren van reusachtige suikerklonten van piepschuim en rijdt daarmee door het postindustriële natuurgebied, dat helaas binnenkort plaats moet maken voor een nieuwbouwwijk. Zijn werk ‘Drive-by’ is als het ware een vooraankondiging van het binnendringen van bouwmaterialen die straks de natuur zullen overnemen. Een film van deze absurde actie is te zien, zo ook de toren zelf.
- https://www.luuksmits.nl/works/drive-by
OPEN HAUS ZK/U: OPEN STUDIOS, PERFORMANCES, VIDEOS, INSTALLATIONS AND RESIDENT TALKS
Tentoonstelling / presentatie
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19-05-2022 t/m 19-01-2020
- Locatie: , Berlijn
- A multitude of spaces turned into places by its people - through actions, encounters and memories. A place of negotiations and in-betweens: From city spaces and public places, over playgrounds and construction sites, to neighborhoods and apartment blocks. Shaped by the diverse interests of the residents who will be presenting their work-in-progress, the practices vary from performance, intervention, and sound installation to multimedia.
- https://www.zku-berlin.org/timeline/openhaus-may-2022/
Concentrated Daydreaming
Tentoonstelling / presentatie
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04-01-2020 t/m 12-01-2020
- Locatie: Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam
- Over a period of four months, I undertook a self-initiated artistic research project focused on ‘concentrated daydreaming’. Daydreaming for me is understood as taming the brain to be able to wonder again, the concentration lies in the ambiguity that it was meant to be a project. I explored daydreaming through the physical act of walking. In this case, navigating the urban fabric of Rotterdam.
- https://www.luuksmits.nl/works/concentrated-daydreaming
Residency Rucka Latvia
Residenties / uitwisseling
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01-05-2018 t/m 31-05-2018
- Locatie: Cesis, Cesis
- In Rucka, a small town of about 18.000 inhabitants, there is an unusual relationship between machine and nature. The smell of oil hangs in the air mixed with the smells of flora and fauna surrounding overgrown tracks. The silence of the rural landscape loudens and intensifies the smallest of details that usually go by unnoticed. Attuning to the sound of the train within this landscape causes a divergent experience of time passing and one of enstranged orientation.
- https://www.luuksmits.nl/works/subsonic-train
Fellow at ZK/U Berlijn
Residenties / uitwisseling
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01-03-2023 t/m 31-05-2023
- Locatie: , Berlijn
- During a residency at ZK/U Berlin (Centre for Arts and Urbanistics) two new works were developed that respond to the site of ZKU in its state of transformation. During his working period, Smits explored the (de)construction of the building, with an interest in tracing the journeys of the materials used. His research has taken him to discover origins ranging from Berlin and China to Ukraine. As well as to recognise the different techniques and materials used over time, from the building’s advent
- https://www.zku-berlin.org/fellows/628/
Erkenningen
Stipendium
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Werkbijdrage Jong Talent, Mondriaan fund
- 2015
Stipendium
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Development and research grant, CBK Rotterdam voor sundaymorning@EKWC, Oisterwijk
- 2017
Stipendium
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Project Funding, Mondriaanfonds voor Rucka Residency
- 2018
Stipendium
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Project Funding, Mondriaan Fonds voor ZK/U Berlin Residency
- 2021
Prijs
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Metro Imaging Award, Portfolio Review, Düsseldorf Photo weekend
- 2016
Collectie
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Ministerie van Infrastructuur
- 2017, Den Haag
Collectie
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Collectie Reyn van de Lugt
- 2016, Rotterdam
Collectie
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Ministerie van Onderwijs Cultuur en Wetenschap
- 2018, Den Haag
Publicatie
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Landelijke, romantische observaties
- 2013
- Artikel
- NRC Handelsblad - Dirk Limburg
Publicatie
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Vaat Art
- 2014
- Artikel/Interview
- Volkskrant - Gidi Heesakkers
Publicatie
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(on)zichtbare hand
- 2021
- Artikel
- Volkskrant - Mark Moorman